Table or desk novelty



A. s. MACDONALD. TABLE 08 DESK NOVELTY.

APPLICATION FILED NAR- 6; ISIS;

Patented June'7, 1921.

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UNITED (STAT Es PATENT OFFICE.

ANG'U S S. MACDONALD, OF GREAT NECK STATION, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THESNEAD & CO. IRON WORKS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A OORPORATION OF NEWJERSEY.

TABLE OR DESK NOVELTY.

LESOAOZ.

is a specification;

This invention relates to table or desk novelties, and has for one ofitsprimary objects the provision of a shell, or analogous article, inseparable parts so constructed that the parts when assembled may be usedas an ornament, as a shaft or stand for lamps and the like, or as acontainer, such as a humidor. My invention also contemplates a noveltyof the character specified, the parts of which are capable of individualuse, as will further appear. In addition I propose to so construct theseparable parts that certain of the same may be detached, the remainingportion or portions serving as a stand or the like.

I accomplish the foregoing, together with such other objects as mayhereinafter appear, by means of a construction which I have illustratedin preferred form in the accompanying drawings wherein- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a shell, such for example as a 75 millimeter shell;Fig. 2 is a section of such shell as altered in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4is a fragmentary elevation of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation ofa modification of my invention.

In carrying out my invention as applied to shells, I cut the shell Ainto a plurality of sections B, C, D, and E. The lower section B, whichconstituted the original base of the shell, has its top edge rabbeted,as indicated at 7 leaving an upstanding annular rim 8. The section C hasits lower edge reversely rabbeted, so as to leave a downwardly dependingrim 9, whereby the two sections will inter-fit. The top edge of thesection C is of similar form and has a disk like plate 10 pressed orotherwise secured in the rabbet, the thickness of said plate beinggreater than the depth of the cut away portion.

The next section D is also rabbeted as at 11 leaving an annular externalrim 12, a disk 13 being pressed or otherwise secured Specification ofLetters Patent. Patented June 7, 1921,

Application fiIed March 6, 1919. Serial No. 281,005.

in the cut away portion. In this case,however, the depth of the cut awayportion is greater than the thickness of the plate 13, as a result ofwhich the lower extremity of the rim 12 may be slipped over theprotrudlng'portionof the plate 10,thus permitting the section D to befitted to the section C; The top edge of section D and the bottom edgeof the section E are also rabbeted to provide complementary inner andouter rims 14 and 15.

The top of the section E may have secured thereto in any preferred form,an attachment such for example as a lamp socket 16, whereby the devicemay be utilized as a lamp stand, for example.

In some instances it may be desirable to lock the sections together inorder that the device may be picked up as a unit by grasping anysection. To this end, I may provide the sections with interlockingmeans, pref.- erably on the order of a breech lock, such as illustratedin Figs. 2, 3 and 4. From inspection of these figures, it will be seenthat I undercut and recess the downwardly projecting rims or tenons ofthe sections in such manner as to provide a plurality of laterally andinwardly extending lips or lugs 17, preferably three in number spacedequidistantly. The upwardly projecting rims or tenons of the sectionsare similarly undercut and recessed to provide the spaced outwardly andlaterally extending lips or lugs 18.

As thus constructed the sections are assembled by interfitting thetenons with the lips of one passed into the spaces between the lips ofthe other. On relative rotary movement, the lips will interlock. Stopmeans 19 are provided at one end of one set of lips soas to properlylimit the rotary movement.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the shell is provided with a base20 adapted to serve as an ash tray.

It will be apparent that the device may be used simply as an ornament;or as a lamp stand and the like; and that in either case the sectionsthereof may be utilized as containers. Thus for example cigarettes maybe stored in section B and cigars in sections D and E. If it is desiredto have access to the cigars section E, whether or not the same hasassociated therewith a lamp I or other device, is lifted 01f to exposethe contents of section D. In such case the section E may be placed toone side as it will still serve as a base or support. If it is de siredto have access to the contents of section B then that section may bedetached, as may section C, which when inverted will serve as areceptacle, such for example as an ash tray. It will be seen thereforethat I have cut up the shell into a number of interfitting parts, one ormore of which is or are provided with atransverse closure member adaptedto serve as a bottom member. The advantages of my improvement will bereadily understood.

1 claim:

' A novelty of the character described consisting of an artillery shellout transversely into four sections, the adjacent ends of each of whichare rabbeted to provide interfitting rims, said rims being provided withmeans adapted to interlock on relative rotation of the sections, afixture on the top section, a plate fitted into the lower end of thesecond section of less thickness than the depth of the rim on saidsection, and a plate fitted into the upper end of the third section of athickness greater than the depth of the rim of said section, theprojecting portion of said second plate being adapted to be slidinglyfitted into the lower end of the second section; whereby when allsections are assembled the shell constitutes a stand, and whendisassembled, the top section constitutes a stand and the remainingsections, receptacles having bottoms.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

ANGUS S. MACDONALD.

